Swordsman Dog Stick

Ep 11 - Missing

"Rome... Mothers... Fathering... I miss you guys" Agni lamented softly as she lay inside her room. There was no feeling of running water soaking both ears when Agni closed her eyes. Accompanied by her restrained sobs, Agni ventured in her dreamland.

It had been a month since Agni's sinking. However, Agni is still a 12-year-old boy, of course the presence of the two people is still very much needed. What's more, Agni's disappearance must have caused concern for them, maybe even they thought Agni had died.

"Moeuuu.... Ayaaaahs.... Raraaa.....!!!!!" Shouted Agni bringing him awake from his sleep.

Agni wakes up breathless, a vengeful feeling of longing for her family, carried away in a dream. Shouts Agni invited the arrival of Ki Jarpa and Sri who had awakened first. The two of them immediately entered Agni's room.

"You okay, Ngger?" Ask Sri in her worries. Two weeks of taking care of Agni, had caused affection in her heart. Moreover, Agni is very similar to the late Sardipa, her only child. Therefore he had considered Agni as his own son.

While Ki Jarpa had taken a glass of water to calm Agni down.

"Drink first Ngger" said ki Jarpa while thrusting a glass of water in his hand.

Agni was still panting, she was still trying to realize her state. A few moments later he was fully in his own consciousness. Agni received a glass of water from ki Jarpa and immediately drank it out.

"I dreamt of my family Auntie" his his frown was weak.

Reflexively, Sri held Agni in her arms. Her maternal instinct said, Hugs will give you a sense of comfort. Sri fully understood how Agni was feeling at this time.

"Please, sorry I have not kept my promise to send word to your family" Ki Jarpa said regretfully. He had promised to send word to Agni's family.

To be honest in the heart of ki Jarpa, he was worried about himself if he had to enter the city of Ngalam. His experience with regards to the Ming family, made him somewhat hesitant to enter the city.

In addition, one month since Agni's stay at home, Agni has not shown any desire to return to her village, even Agni never questioned something she promised, he said, so that it almost makes ki Jarpa forget his promise.

Actually Ki Jarpa did not need to worry about it, because Agni herself did not plan to meet her family. Agni wants to deepen her ability first, besides, Agni's instincts feel her family's condition is fine, although she is somewhat worried about the condition of Dirjo, her friend.

"Why Uncle, I have not planned to go home first, I also feel my family is fine" Agni replied.

A moment later the atmosphere had returned as usual. The three of them had been busy with their respective work in that morning. At least, the busyness that Agni lived, can comfort her from the longing for her family.

Agni has proven her words to Sri several times, Agni's skills in cooking, fairly clever for a 12-year-old child, especially Agni Men. Sri became more and more admiring and loving towards Agni.

"You are very good Ngger, your mother must be very proud to have a son like you" Sri said that morning, Agni helped him in the kitchen to eat his morning meal this time.

"Not Auntie, the proof is that I always mocked it if I put the wrong seasoning, what else if it empties the tempe or know, I must be angry all out, not to mention, not to mention, my sister always made fun of me" Agni said, grumbling. Indeed, for Agni, it was precisely such things that made Agni miss her family.

"Hihihi, do I have to behave like your mother Ngger?" Sri Goda.

"I'm sure Bibi won't be able to, my mother is fiercely right" Agni replied.

"Hide... Angger, that's kind of a form of affection for a mother, sometimes as a child will feel the mother or father is too hard, or so, not just for the sake of the good Angger himself. Isn't Angger good at cooking now?" Sri said with a small smile.

Sri's words entered his heart, he remembered how his father or mother was angry when Agni could not do something as she should. But now Agni realized, if without the guidance of her mother who was always angry, not necessarily she had the skills of cooking like today. Or also when his father hit his arm when it is not right how Agni holds the bow, of course Agni will not have the skills to hunt.

Time passed, as usual, after breakfast, Agni would follow ki Jarpa to go to the rice field, then Agni would go to continue her practice by the river in the middle of the forest.

A few days passed, Agni always filled it with training dog-beating sticks, as well as the first line of the sword path, the roar of the dragon king. But he remembered his message, to practice without using qi first. Thus, all the moves he trained, had not used the flow of qi energy at all.

Sometimes Agni also tried to dive into the river to look for other jade grass. He had known and felt for himself the efficacy of the grass. But until several hundred meters long river he tried to dive, Agni could not find any other jade grass.

Agni also tried several times his strength on the rocks or trees on the banks of the river. Some stones even had to be crushed to the brink of receiving Agni's punch, either with a bare-handed punch or with her cane. Similarly, the trees around it, not much different from the fate of the crushed stones.

It was not Agni's intention to destroy the forest by the river. Agni just needs a wider place to train her moves. So Agni crushed the stones and uprooted the trees around her, trying her strength.

This time Agni repeated her moves again. He started with the dragon king's roaring sword. Agni's short sword started to swing, it moved so in rhythm with Agni's body. Makes Agni look like she's dancing. Even so, anyone could definitely see so dangerous a threat from every swing or stab of the sword.

Agni repeated the style three times, she wanted to completely bounce every move on the roar of the dragon king. After finishing with his sword stance, Agni sheathed his sword by pouring qi on the sword. The short sword miraculously coiled around Agni's waist like a belt.

Agni opened the hand she stretched out, the stick that was a few meters away from her, flew towards her palm. Something that made him laugh when some time ago, he was able to do it for the first time.

Several times Agni repeated the style of the dog's bat until the fifth. As soon as he finished with those moves, Agni felt the threat of an object rushing towards her.

"Tin..." Agni fended off the thing with her wand.

"Who's....."

Agni had not finished with her words, an object with the same speed, returned to her, even several times it kept darting at her.

"Ting.ting...tung.tang..tueng"

Agni continued to fend off the attacks that came at her. He was trying to find out who attacked him. His spiritual ability had made him able to sense or even see anything that was several tens of meters around him. But until several times he investigated, Agni was still unable to find the owner of the attack.

The attack came increasingly fast, sometimes even three or four attacks came at once, making Agni have to dodge and fend off simultaneously. After a long time, the attack did not stop, various kinds of evasive movements and fending off Agni had failed to save her body from the attack. Agni could now see hundreds of marble-sized stones scattered around her.

Agni was no longer able to dodge when the stones came increasingly aggressively towards him.

"Bugh.bugh..."

Two stones in a row hit his stomach and chest. Agni felt pain in the part of the body that got the attack. But it turned out that it did not cause serious injuries, the golden rhino armor had been attached to his body.

In the end, the attack came faster and faster, a stone slammed into his stomach and made him fall down several steps. Agni whimpered feeling pain in her stomach. The attack stopped, slowly he got back up while still trying to maintain vigilance.

"Haha... Bad boy, you're getting better"

The voice sounded familiar to Agni's ears, along with the exit of 5 old men from behind the trees, hovering a step above the ground, the lower part of her body smokelessly thick, smoke-headed, but also not thin, so it does not show the shape of his legs.

It turned out that Agni knew two of them, although Agni was still a bit strange with smoke on their legs.

"Eyang...? Eyaaaa.......!!!!"

Agni forgot the pain in her stomach. Although he had only met her a few times, but longing had taken hold of his heart, Agni shouted to the old man while running towards him. But when he jumped while stretching out both hands was about to hug his Eyeang, all of a sudden....

"Bruuugghh"